Death & Dying
Epigram XXII (Mair)
Translated by A. W. Mair (1921) · From Epigrams (Loeb, 1921)
Death & Dying
At morn we buried Melanippus: as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand; for she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house of their father Aristippus beheld a twofold woe; and all Cyrene bowed her head to see the home of happy children made desolate.
This translation is printed as prose in its source edition.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/176/.
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Callimachus. “Epigram XXII (Mair).” Translated by A. W. Mair. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/callimachus/176/.
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